search for extraterrestrial intelligence theme
A contemporary scientific endeavor to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, primarily by employing powerful telescopes of different kinds and analyzing the received signals.
9 total · 3 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Contact (1997) | major | The SETI scientist Ellie Arroway picked up an alien radio transmission emanating from the Ve star system. |
| movie: The Arrival (1996) | major | The story follows the radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky's discovery of an alien signal from the star Wolf 336 and its strange aftermath. |
| shortstory: A Baby on Neptune (1929) | major | In the 22nd century, the people of Earth started sending out radio messages to other planets in the solar system in the hopes of making contact with intelligent life. And it turned out that beings on multiple planets in the solar system were doing the same in hopes of making contact. |
| movie: 20 (2018) | minor | It was mentioned how a signal, presumably for extraterrestrials to detect, was sent into space from India. |
| movie: Independence Day (1996) | minor | A team of SETI scientists were astonished at the sight of an alien signal that had originated from somewhere in the vicinity of the Moon. |
| movie: Koi Mil Gaya (2003) | minor | The scientist Sanjay Mehra had created a computer from which he was sending variations of the sacred syllable "om" into space, hoping to attract extraterrestrial life. |
| movie: My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) | minor | Steven Mills was working on sending radio messages into deep space, and in so doing inadvertently sent a radio wave out of the galaxy to Celeste's home world. |
| movie: Species (1995) | minor | It was explained how in 1974 SETI researchers sent a message with information about Earth and its inhabitants into outer space from the Arecibo Observatory. |
| voy3x08 | minor | Rain was searching for aliens for the SETI institute. |